When You Sing To The Fishes

OVERVIEW

Guitarist Otis Dundos is back in Kisumu, the addictive and possessive
lakeside town. Back in the ‘80s, he was the Urban Benga guitar legend.
His commercially potent mix of hard benga and lofty rumba was loud with a culture surrounding it, and a cult-like following. It ignited an
entire generation of music fans. It made him rich and famous.

When he left Kisumu twenty years ago, it was a sudden unpleasant event.
Everything ended in tragedy. He was twenty-nine years and at his peak .
Today he still is the artsy man: the musician, the guitarist. People
have died fast; the men and women who helped him make music… they
have all died or wasted away. Is he about ready to follow suit? What is left?
The past has unfulfilled dreams, good life, nice cars, easy money, expensive
perfumes, glamourous women, living on the road and in the studio. And conniving band mates, thieving promoters and clever pirates.

The present is bearable but holds no promise: he is forty-seven.
If he has to accept his forced retirement, he has to learn to be a local
Kisumuan, not the famous name. He reminisces about the romantic encounters of ‘70s. The future is uncertain. He is searching for sanity and happiness.
Happiness? In Kisumu lives the woman whose unfulfilled love still
dwells his heart. But his mind is too bamboozled to even think.

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Brief bio

Okang’a Ooko was born in Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria in Kenya and grew up in the seventies and eighties in Kisumu. He is the author of Businesswoman’s Fault, a collection of seven stories, and three mainstream literary novels, including Kisumu, When You Sing To The Fishes and Tandawuoya mostly featuring stories of scandalous vices, human and folly, and peopled by men and women struggling to succeed in the new African renaissance. His fourth novel, You Can't Polish This Turd! will be issued on November 2018. Read more...